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[1] Design for an obelisk, close to as built, May and June 1804
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Reference number
SM 65/3/12
Purpose
[1] Design for an obelisk, close to as built, May and June 1804
Aspect
Plan, elevation and section
Scale
to a scale
Inscribed
Elevation, Plan, Allow for stone to be below paving of the Market Place, A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, K, Copper, bronzed, gilt, c.d. is determined by drawiing / a.b. must be one Inch left in width / ½ / XX Qy In execution perhaps three or five deep flues e/ = Thiis shield will in the execution fill the whole space / O This (?) will correct by ? drawer and dimensions given
Signed and dated
- 29/05/1804
Lincolins Inn Fields / May 29th 1804and verso June 19.1804
Medium and dimensions
Pen, sepia and pink washes, pricked for transfer on laid paper (678 x 565)
Hand
SOANE, Sir John (1754--1837)
Soane and Soane office hand
Soane and Soane office hand
Verso
Design for a pineapple: marked 'K', dated 'June 19 1804. Drawn by Soane
Notes
The five-line inscription is in Soane's hand as are parts of the drawing. The verso is certainly by Soane. The drawing is close to the executed design and was preceded by (undated) drawings [2] and [3]. There is a small mahogany model for the obelisk (in the Soane museum) that is very close to drawing [1].
Level
drawing
Exhibition history
Soane Revisited, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, March - August 1996
John Soane: Reading's Architectural Hero, Reading Museum, 5 May - 2 September 2007
John Soane: Reading's Architectural Hero, Reading Museum, 5 May - 2 September 2007
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
If you have any further information about this object, please contact us: drawings@soane.org.uk